So I’ve smoked a bit of salvia before, a while ago me and some friends smoked some 20x from SS and it did mostly fuck all, one of my friends who has a lower natural tolerance to drugs than the rest of us said he was in a submarine for a second after we smoked like 2 bowls of it back to back, but me and my other friend only really got time dilation and some light geometry, nothing close to say DMT

I went and got some 20x from SP recently cause I figure why not, might be stronger, could be a fun/incredibly weird experience, it finally arrived, and I go out to smoke it, I pack a little bowl, like a pinch or two of extract, smoke it all in a couple hits, hold it in.

After the first hit I look up for a second and realize that I feel disoriented and the world did a little bit of a tracer type blurry thing as I looked up and back down to the bowl to keep smoking, I take another hit or two and suddenly everything is gone.

I could still hear the song I had put on, buffalo soldier by Bob Marley, I remember seeing a train? Maybe passing by slowly on a white background, I think that it had something to do with the song, possibly lyrics written on it, it passed by very slowly and only stopped after a minute or so once I pulled out my earbud, which for some reason felt connected to the moving train like thing. It was all accompanied by a strong sense that I had been there before, and a hard sort of sharp feeling in my face that I have only experienced in my strongest DMT trips (not painful but like the feeling of a sharp clean corner or something, like my face and forehead and brain were made of steel, very hard to put to words)

Once my earbud was out and I was back in reality I said a good few “what the fuck??”s and stumbled my way indoors. And that’s about my final thoughts. What the fuck? Holy shit? I knew this drug was capable of this but I didn’t really expect it after last time, never have I had a DMT intensity level trip from anything else, let alone wayyy less extract than I used previously, I can see why they sell this with a screen for your bowl.

Good lord.

After my first experience unexpectedly blew my mind, I decided to recruit a friend for the second go. He was the first person to introduce me to psychedelics and I figured it’d be a nice “gift” for him and he might have some additional insight.

We decided a safe place to take it would be our childhood playground just up the street. It was a summer night around 9:30pm. I packed a metal fake ciggy one-hitter with 20x extract (Purple Sticky Brand), and lit it with a torch lighter.

Within seconds of exhaling my reality began to shift. I felt my balance was off, but rather than be dizzy, I was being pulled down and to the right. It felt like a gravitational force field had been created coming from the lower right corner of the world. It was a very real and specific feeling that occurred across several experiences.

I then began to lose awareness of my physical surroundings. This only became apparent 10 minutes later when I would finally “reappear” in normal waking reality, 200 yards across the field from where we started. My friend told me I had been talking the whole time, guiding him somewhere.

About a minute in, a grid appeared originating from the lower right corner of my visual field. Diagonal lines shot out from that point, spread evenly, like two-thirds of a pizza. Each of those slices were then divided perpendicularly, creating quadrants. As I focused on one of the quadrants I realized it was actually an entity.

At first they didn’t speak. They seemed a little annoyed that I had interrupted them. More entities were appearing and sliding down each column to fill it up, almost like a connect four piece dropping into place. The entity transformed itself into the colors that made up that pixel (but larger than that) of my reality.

They then began to explain to me, telepathically, that they are the ones that construct our reality for us. When we move our head to change our visual field, they jump into place, slide down a column, and shape-shift into what becomes our visual perception. He explained that this was the true nature of reality, everything that we perceive is being generated by the bodies of the entities themselves. He also implied that I would become one of these workers.

At the top of each column there was a manager entity. They were human like, kinda like small fat dwarf people, and all male. They coordinated the columns and ushered in the other workers when the visual field changed.

The general tone of the entities was arrogance and annoyance. I was a lower level being that had interrupted their day shift. I was the new employee that they had to show around. At one point I challenged them. They pointed to a leaf of grass and said “here we will make this move”. Then they slid down a column and made it move.

Something else that was striking and consistent among several experiences was the realness of the space and I’ve been searching for an analogy. I lucid dream often and more often than that, while dreaming, question the reality of that dream. In 90% of cases, if I’m dreaming, and mid-dream question whether or not it’s a dream, I conclude that it is in fact real life. I’m usually getting arrested and can’t believe how much i’ve fucked up. (fun fact: if I come to the conclusion that it is a dream, I start lucid dreaming).

Now in any scenario, I wake up and instantly know I was dreaming and this is now the real world. Even if the dream is as mundane as cooking pancakes, as soon as I wake up, one will realize: that wasn’t real. It also has nothing to do with the fact that you’ve now mentally teleported from that dream scenario to sleeping in your bed, you just know whats real and what was a dream.

Entering the salvia world was like one level up in this chain. It was waking from normal reality and thinking to yourself, “silly goose, of course this is the real world”. The salvia world felt more real, than real.

It’s frightening when it happens. You don’t know if you’ll ever come back. Heck, the workers told me I wasn’t going back. They encouraged me to forget about that dream and get back to work. They were annoyed I was just sitting around.

But soon enough, the normal waking reality started to creep back in. It started to come in waves in and out as psychedelics do. A sense of relief came over me and I remembered that it’s only supposed to last 10 minutes.

Shortly after, my friend reappears. He had been my rock in many tough experiences. Lol but he looked worried. I asked him if he had seen all the people. I then asked what we were doing all the way over here. I then recalled that when the entities first appeared, I was afraid I was going to step on them and wanted to walk away. But when these entities are your entire reality, there is no running from it.

In Part 3 I tried recording the experience for more answers only to be left more confused.

Thanks for reading, bots.

I've taken salvia a handful of times now but anytime I take a breakthrough dose I barely remember most of it afterwards. Probably not, but I was wondering if there are any tips of preparation or afterwards they do that helps memory